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Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Easter eggs

I hope you all enjoyed your Easter weekend. We stayed at home but really enjoyed having an extra couple of days. I made some Easter decorations, based on an idea I saw on Sew for Soul Blog, although I used tissue paper painted with acrylic as my base layer.

It was a little fiddly to cut the images out of the paper napkins, but I am pleased with the way they turned out. I also decorated some others with pastel dots and tissue paper stars, but they aren't quite finished yet. The lilac in the top picture had to be cut from the tree as it was a wayward branch which threatened to hit us every time we went near it, but it is scenting the room nicely and adds a bit more Spring to the Easter decorations.

Here's the real thing, looking beautiful against the blue sky we had over the weekend.,

Lilac is not the most beautiful of trees for most of the year, but then it really does earn its place for three glorious weeks in Spring.

Dear JudyHello and a Huge welcome! The eggs worked out really well and I must get the others finished too. They are polystyrene underneath so are really light (just in case one of the cats decides to knock them off the table!) . Our lilac tree used to be really big but the main trunk rotted and blew over a year or two ago. However, branches grew back and this is the result now (it's a much better shape too). We love seeing (and smelling) the flowers.I hope you'll enjoy looking at my blog.Best wishesEllie

What beautiful eggs Ellie - you do everything so well! And lilac! I love lilac - my parents had a lilac tree when I was young and the memories aroused by your lovely pics are so lovely, thank you! Wishing you the best always, hugs, Joy xo

Thanks, Joy. It was a lovely idea from Josie's Blog and I just thought they would make a nice addition to the Easter display. The lilac is beautiful at the moment and I'm so pleased that the photos brought back happy memories for you.Best wishesEllie

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I share the house and garden with my husband and a cat. I hate housework but love gardening. I have outgrown my small garden and spend many hours drooling over gardening books, dreaming of what I will do when I get my half acre of land! I also enjoy reading, baking, jewellery making, papercrafting, have recently started sewing and then there is felt making. I would love to have enough space for an art studio/craft room, but make do with the sitting room table, sitting room, bedroom and spare bedroom for now...